President Donald Trump was reportedly angered over the weekend after Israel struck Iranian oil storage facilities and a refinery near Tehran, a move that triggered massive fires, sent crude prices surging and exposed tensions inside the U.S.-Israeli coalition. According to a report from Axios, Israeli forces hit oil depots and a refinery in and around […]
Bill Maher’s ‘Trap’ Humiliates Adam Schiff During Live Show
Bill Maher caught California Senator Adam Schiff off guard while discussing the attacks on Iran, leading Schiff to inadvertently criticize the Obama administration. During his show “Real Time” on Friday, Maher read a 2011 quote from the Obama camp regarding presidential authority in authorizing military strikes, without mentioning the former president’s name. “This statement from […]
Trump, First Lady Attend Dignified Transfer For Six U.S. Troops
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump attended a dignified transfer ceremony Saturday at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware for six U.S. service members killed in a March 1 Iranian drone attack in Kuwait. The fallen troops were killed in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait, while supporting Operation Epic Fury, the U.S.-Israeli military campaign targeting […]
Trump administration pivots to rebuild gutted federal workforce
A year after Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency allies purged hundreds of thousands of federal employees, the Trump administration is ramping up hiring — a reversal that reflects a quiet retreat from one of the president’s defining early priorities and marks a new phase in efforts to reshape the bureaucracy in his […]
Chance Of ‘SAVE Act’ Passing Senate Increases With New GOP Support
Two Republican senators who had previously declined to support changes to Senate filibuster practices have reversed their positions, potentially increasing the chances that the SAVE Act could advance in the Senate. One of the lawmakers, John Cornyn, had earlier stopped short of endorsing a procedural strategy known as the “talking filibuster.” The approach would require […]
Pentagon Appoints Former DOGE Official to Lead Key Artificial Intelligence Initiatives
The U.S. Department of Defense has appointed computer scientist Gavin Kliger as its Chief Data Officer, placing him in charge of advancing the Pentagon’s artificial intelligence initiatives. Kliger previously worked with billionaire Elon Musk on efforts to reform government operations through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). According to a Pentagon social media post, Kliger’s […]
Pentagon taps former DOGE official to lead its AI efforts
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon on March 6 named as chief data officer a computer scientist who aided billionaire Elon Musk’s efforts to overhaul the government in 2025 and who has boosted white supremacists and misogynists online. In a social media post, the Pentagon said Mr Gavin Kliger’s new role “places him at the centre of […]
Elon Musk to avert deposition about DOGE, dismantling US foreign aid agency
WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) – Billionaire and former Trump adviser Elon Musk will not have to sit for a deposition about his tenure leading the Department of Government Efficiency and dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday. (Reporting by Courtney Rozen; Editing by Mark Porter) Source link
European Commission Wants Your Free Speech. X Is In The Way
Authored by Adina Portau via RealClearPolitics.ocm, Last week, Elon Musk’s X launched a landmark legal challenge against a $140 million fine issued by the European Commission last December under the Digital Services Act, an EU censorship law. The case was filed at the General Court of the EU, which hears high-stakes challenges to EU regulatory and enforcement actions. […]
I Do Solemnly Swear: How Profanity Has Taken Hold Of American Politics
Authored by Jonathan Turley, “Respectfully, f–k off.” Those words by California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s spokesperson, Izzy Gardon, summed up the current race to the bottom of American politics. Democrats appear in a competition of the profane where voters are now subject to a virtual carpet-bombing of f-bombs and other indecent language. Gardon’s response was to a standard […]
